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walk one's shots

walk one's shots verb: to repeatedly observe the fall of shot of one's weapon and use this data to adjust one's aim until one hits one's target.

Verb

walk one's shots (third-person singular simple present walks one's shots, present participle walking one's shots, simple past and past participle walked one's shots)

  1. To repeatedly observe the fall of shot of one's weapon and use this data to adjust one's aim until one hits one's target.
    • "I analyzed their firing patterns when they were walking their shots across the Milky Way. They only hit annie plants whose precise positions could be predicted at least twenty seconds in advance."2019 July 17, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2023

Forms of walk one's shots

third-person singular presentwalks one's shots
present participlewalking one's shots
past participlewalked one's shots
pastwalked one's shots

Questions about walk one's shots

What does walk one's shots mean?
Walk one's shots means to repeatedly observe the fall of shot of one's weapon and use this data to adjust one's aim until one hits one's target.
What part of speech is walk one's shots?
Walk one's shots is a verb.
What is the past tense of walk one's shots?
The past tense of walk one's shots is walked one's shots.

Words near walk one's shots in the dictionary

  1. walk on one's lower lip
  2. walk on sunshine
  3. walk on the wild side
  4. walk on water
  5. walk one's chalks
  6. walk one's shots
  7. walk out
  8. walk out on
  9. walk out with
  10. walk over
  11. walk policies

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